The Chase

As a meteorologist, one of my dreams is to see a tornado. A big huge tornado. A big huge tornado that spins up in the middle of a field and doesn’t do any damage or cause any injuries.

That’s the catch-22 of storm chasing. You want to see tornadoes, but in seeing them, understand that sometimes people are injured.

On my first and only storm chasing trip last spring, Ari Sarsalari, Jennifer Watson, Kim Ast and I trekked over 4,500 miles through 16 states and 8 state capitals! From 12pm ET Wed 9 May to 11pm CT Fri 11 May (60 total hours), we were in the car of 47 hours. Part of this time period was the trip we made overnight from Wilmington, NC to Corpus Christi, TX

While we didn’t see a tornado, we had a lot of fun. Our live stream made The Weather Channel and KHOU-TV for two hours!